What is kusudama?

Even if you haven't seen a dinosaur so far, and have a chance to see kind of this work, maybe you won't think that a dinosaur is made from a origami paper.
Because you know what the dinosaur is by TV, books, movies...etc...could be.
A dinosaur is an ancient animal, and it is made with bones and blood and meat... etc (sorry, I don't know detail), so it's not a thing made from paper.
Seismosaurus (C) Origami Club / Diagram


But if you see this work of photo, you may think a kusudama is made with (origami) papers.
Because you don't know what kusudama is.
Origami is technique to express form of something (for example, animal and plant and accessory...and so on) with papers.
Kusudama origami is a thing which express an kusudama with origami papers.

So, this is a point.
What is the kusudama?

Kusudama is one of the ornament made with some herbs or flowers(iris, Japanese iris, Citrus tachibana...etc).
It means to prays for longevity and prays for a good health and prays for good luck(fortune), also it means a blessing for every thing...

The Japanese kusudama (薬玉; lit. medicine ball) is a paper model that is usually (although not always) created by sewing multiple identical pyramidal units (usually stylized flowers folded from square paper) together through their points to form a spherical shape. Alternately the individual components may be glued together.

The word itself is a combination of two Japanese words kusuri, Medicine, and tama, Ball.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusudama

It is the manners and customs that came from China about 1200 years ago.
You can see the detail in this page about what is kusudama.
---What is kusudama by Atelier Puupuu

Here is a videos on how to make an Origami Kusudama:


Hope you all try to make one and share pictures of your kusudama ball with me. Try first before you say it difficult, k. Good luck. Bye.

Pengembaraan ke Sarawak, Bumi Kenyalang

Hi guys. Lama tak update blog ku ini. hmm dlm bln ni baru 1 kali, so tmbh la sekali lagi x la nmpk kosong sgt kan, hehehe. Seperti yg beberapa org tau aku ada la kena pi berjalan2 tp naik kapal terbang ke Kuching baru - baru ni. So nak cerita la sikit & menunjuk la gmbr2 kat sana.
1stly, korang mesti tertanya2 kenapa aku pergi smpi sarawak. Hmm, aku pi sbb meeting dgn org Thailand, meeting ni di panggil: Malaysia - Thailand Border Health Goodwill Committee Meeting. Well, meeting ni di buat antara 4 negeri Malaysia yg bersempadanan dengan Thailand. Kalau korang pandai brp negeri tu dan namakan negeri2 yg bersempadanan dgn thailand. Klu pandai sangat bagitau province thailand yg bersempadanan dgn negeri tu. hehehe (kejam betul soalan, saja nak bagi korang pikir sikit). Ni la banner kat hotel di Kuching tu:

Pastu korang mesti tertanya2 plk: eh, kenapa buat kat Sarawak? X sempadan dgn Thailand pun? Hmmm, bagus soalan tu. Ni sebab tiap kali mesyuarat depa akan tentukan mana nak buat next meeting. eh lupa lak nak bagi tau yg meeting ni akan dibuat selang seli di antara 2 negara ni. So tahun lepas meeting ni di buat di Thailand iaitu Chiagrai. Masa di Chiangrai org Thailand kata next meeting (iaitu tahun ni) depa nak pi Sarawak, jadi negeri tuan rumah akan bertungkus lumus la walau mcmn pun utk buat di Sarawak juga. So mai la kami kat Sarawak tahun ni. Kemudian next meeting plk akan akan di buat di Thailand dan org Malaysia memilih untuk dibuat di Pulau Krabi. So bertungkus lumus la depa tahun depan. Selingan sikit, ni bukan org thai, ni org Sarawak, kaum apa ntah aku dah lupa:

Pastu korang mesti tertanya plk, mcmn la aku ni blh pi ke meeting yg international ni. Pangkat baru sikit ja. Jawapannya selepas gambar ini, hehehe jgn marah:

Sebenarnya bos aku x mau pi sbb kena menari. So aku x nak la komen lbh2 sbb sat gi dia baca blog aku terus kena "u are fried" hehehe. So aku pi la dgn 7 org dari kedah kena pi sana sbb kena menari (ada la kerja lain tp main thing sbb aku kena pi adalah kena menari tu la). Jadi pi la kami menari lagu Ayam Didik 3 minit depan org Thailand, makan dan jalan2 tu ja lah. Hehehe penat 4 tahun mengaji farmasi. Kalau ada masa nanti aku upload video tarian tu, sbb video tu dlm camera one of my colleague. Ckp pasal jln2, last day kami pi bawa org thailand ni pi Cultural Village. So kebanyakan aku ambik gmbr kat situ, ni gmbr2 nya.
Ni gmbr atas jambatan buluh kat situ, posing maut lg, hehehe
Blkg tu rumah bidayuh
Hmm try nak upload video welcoming dance kat kg tu, tp x blh. hmm x pa la, lain kali ja la. k, till next time, bye...
:-* muah...

8 petals origami sunflower

My friend suddenly called me last thursday to his room & i thought he wanna ask something about work. But i was shock because he ask me how to fold an origami sunflower. He ask me because the instructions in a website are confusing. The sunflower turn out not good at all. At home i fold it with using couple types of paper & it must use a light paper (as thick paper will easily torn). So i use a paper that i bought from kinokuniya & this is the result (after 4 paper is wasted just like that). Hope can fold it better.